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...dirty joke stage. Steiner departs for America just as smut-ridden as when he left. The woman he almost came to love is, when the story ends, back in Paris where we first found her, still unloved. Only the location of the beds and the position of the players thereon have changed...
Where Quaker Hoover takes issue with tradition is the designation of the rider on the red horse as Pestilence ("and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword"). Hoover points out that in more than 20 different kinds of disasters and punishments mentioned in Revelation, pestilence does not occur once. St. John, he thinks, "had some other idea in mind" for the red horseman −"the name which we know in modern times as Revolution...
...Fantastic." In a public statement, MacArthur himself said: "The report of the Department of Defense fully confirms that I was never consulted concerning the Yalta conference, that I exercised no influence whatsoever thereon and knew nothing about its secret agreements until after they had been consummated and communicated to me. The report furthermore clearly demonstrates that the basis of such agreements lay in decisions taken by the State Department on political policy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on military policy long before Yalta...
...these I was not informed. However, once such decisions had been taken and communicated to me following Yalta, they became binding upon me as upon any other theater commander. All future discussions thereon with War Department representatives necessarily became limited to consideration of their ultimate application to the conduct of the war. The attempt to interpret any statements I may have made in the course of such post-Yalta discussions as reflecting my pre-Yalta views and convictions is wholly unwarranted...
...below the list of approximately 250 "suspect" organizations appended to the questionnaire it is stated quite clearly that the list "is not an allegation or an expression of opinion by the State of Georgia that the organizations listed thereon are in violation of State or Federal laws." Yet from these organizations, security officers are supposed to determine "reasonable grounds" for dismissal